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KDE Ships August Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform

August 6, 2012. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform.
These updates are the fifth in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.5 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.8 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.8.4 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place.
The changelog and Bugzilla list more, but not all improvements since 4.8.4.
Note that these changelogs are incomplete. For a complete list of changes that went into 4.8.5, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.8.5 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages.
To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.8.5 Info Page. If you would like to find out more about the KDE Workspaces and Applications 4.8, please refer to the 4.8 release notes and its earlier versions.

Plasma Desktop with Dolphin and Gwenview

The KDE Software Compilation, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free
under Open Source licenses. KDE's software can be obtained in source and various binary
formats from http://download.kde.org
or with any of the major
GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.

Installing 4.8.5 Binary Packages

Packages.
Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of 4.8.5
for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers
have done so.
Additional binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now available,
may become available over the coming weeks.

Package Locations.
For a current list of available binary packages of which the KDE Project has
been informed, please visit the 4.8.5 Info
Page.

Compiling 4.8.5

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languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility
principles in mind. KDE's full-featured applications run natively on
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